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Cold Spring is a city in Stearns County in central Minnesota, on the Sauk River about sixteen miles southwest of St. Cloud.

Cold Spring was platted on September 11, 1856, and named for the natural springs near the original town site; it was first called Cold Springs before the "s" was later dropped.

A post office has been in operation at Cold Spring since 1857.

Many of Cold Spring's early settlers were German Catholics drawn to the Sauk River valley by the Slovenian missionary priest Francis Xavier Pierz, who advertised the region in German-language newspapers across the United States.

The 2020 census counted 4,164 people in Cold Spring, up from 4,025 in 2010, and the 2010 census counted about 1,640 housing units in the city.

Cold Spring's granite industry dates to 1920, when the Cold Spring Granite Company was founded; it grew into the home of the largest building granite producing plant in the world, and the company, now known simply as Coldspring, is still headquartered in the city.

Brewing began in Cold Spring in 1874, when German immigrant brewmeister Michael Sargl opened a brewery atop the spring that gave the town its name — "good water, good beer" — and the site is now home to the Gluek Brewing Company.

By 1915, two local companies were selling Cold Spring's mineral spring water across a wide territory, and the brewery alone sold some 16,000 barrels of beer in 1914.

Cold Spring is served by the ROCORI school district (Independent School District 750), which it shares with Rockville and Richmond, and ROCORI High School is located in Cold Spring.

Three Cold Spring houses are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the John Oster House and the Ferdinand Peters House, both built in 1907, and the Eugene Hermanutz House, built in 1912.